48 FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



Mr. Lovell was a remarkable man, of tall, 

 slight figure ; early in life he had been in the ist 

 Life Guards, during which time he lost his right 

 arm by an accident when shooting pigeons at the 

 Red House. Always a graceful horseman, no one 

 could ride better through the Forest, and no one 

 more thoroughly understood the art of hunting 

 wild deer. 



The following Proclamation is probably the 

 first Notice of Foxhounds in the New Forest, and 

 seems to have been published about 1770 : — 



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'* No Hounds are to be permitted to hunt in the 

 Forest, except the Lord Warden's and the Duke 

 of Richmond's (if he should choose to come), but 

 in the month of April, viz. from the ist to the 30th, 

 both Days inclusive. 



'' That no Pack be suffered to go out more than 

 three Times in one Week, and no Hounds to be 

 taken out the intermediate Days ; and, to prevent 

 confusion, it is agreed that the Lord Warden's 

 Hounds are to hunt Monday, Wednesday, and 

 Friday, and Mr. Grove's to hunt Tuesday, 

 Thursday, and Saturday, and no more than two 

 Packs of Hounds to be in the Forest at the same 

 Time. 



'' It is necessary to remark that the Duke of 

 Richmond had liberty from the preceding Lord 

 Warden to bring his Hounds, which was continued 



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